Hi,
1) I believe it's hard to find the acceptance rate, but the approach to interviewing is very similar. You will have both classic and ops cases. I would assume that the chances are very similar to the generalist
2) The phone interview is a simplified version of the regular interview. You'll have a simple case. Pls take the proposed mock interview
There are several types of operational cases that you may have:
1) Operational math problems. (e.g. Should we increase the speed of the elevator or just buy a second one? How should we reduce the queues? How should we increase the output of a factory?).
Structuring:
- Usually, you have to look at the process. Even the most complicated systems have the inflows and outflows
The key concepts that you have to learn:
- Capacity and utilization (both machine and people)
- Cycle time, Throughput time, Little's Law
- How the does lowest cycle time influence the production? (Lead time = cycle time of the slowest process)
- How can we mitigate the bottlenecks with low cycle time? (Buffer, Parallel process, speeding up)
2) Cost cutting cases
Structuring:
- What is the cost composition and what are the biggest costs
- Benchmarking of the biggest costs to find the improvement potential
- Process improvements to meet the benchmarks
- Costs and benefits of the proposed initiatives
The key concepts that you have to learn:
- Internal / external benchmarking
- Idle time
- Core processes (usually are optimized) and the supporting processes (usually are cut)
- Math structures (Frequency of operations * time per operation)
- Other useful structures (e.g. people - process - technology)
Feel free to reach me for further help with these cases.
3) Bottleneck cases (e.g. Huge write-offs in the meat store or bottleneck on the bridge)
Structuring:
You draw a value chain and go through it to find a bottleneck.
E.g. for the meat write-offs it will be:
- Supplier issues (packaging, meat quality, warehousing)
- Transportation (Length, fridges)
- Store (Refrigerators in the warehouse, in-store fridges, demand for meet)
Best
Hi,
1) I believe it's hard to find the acceptance rate, but the approach to interviewing is very similar. You will have both classic and ops cases. I would assume that the chances are very similar to the generalist
2) The phone interview is a simplified version of the regular interview. You'll have a simple case. Pls take the proposed mock interview
There are several types of operational cases that you may have:
1) Operational math problems. (e.g. Should we increase the speed of the elevator or just buy a second one? How should we reduce the queues? How should we increase the output of a factory?).
Structuring:
- Usually, you have to look at the process. Even the most complicated systems have the inflows and outflows
The key concepts that you have to learn:
- Capacity and utilization (both machine and people)
- Cycle time, Throughput time, Little's Law
- How the does lowest cycle time influence the production? (Lead time = cycle time of the slowest process)
- How can we mitigate the bottlenecks with low cycle time? (Buffer, Parallel process, speeding up)
2) Cost cutting cases
Structuring:
- What is the cost composition and what are the biggest costs
- Benchmarking of the biggest costs to find the improvement potential
- Process improvements to meet the benchmarks
- Costs and benefits of the proposed initiatives
The key concepts that you have to learn:
- Internal / external benchmarking
- Idle time
- Core processes (usually are optimized) and the supporting processes (usually are cut)
- Math structures (Frequency of operations * time per operation)
- Other useful structures (e.g. people - process - technology)
Feel free to reach me for further help with these cases.
3) Bottleneck cases (e.g. Huge write-offs in the meat store or bottleneck on the bridge)
Structuring:
You draw a value chain and go through it to find a bottleneck.
E.g. for the meat write-offs it will be:
- Supplier issues (packaging, meat quality, warehousing)
- Transportation (Length, fridges)
- Store (Refrigerators in the warehouse, in-store fridges, demand for meet)
Best
5 sessions package with Vlad 
